SUMMARY

As of October 29th, 15:00 GMT / 8AM PST we are working to resolve the following service incident:

We are receiving reports of performance issues. We are currently investigating this.

15:30 GMT / 8:30 AM PST:

We are seeing some improvement to the current issue impacting performance. More information to follow.

15:48 GMT / 8:48 AM PST:

We are happy to report that the issue impacting performance is now fully resolved. Post-mortem to follow below.

POST-MORTEM

This incident was a result of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attach against one of the Zendesk IPs, causing accessibility issues to one of our data centres. Actual DDoS attack flood time was between 14:37 - 14:40 UTC. Once the attack subsided, due to the time of day and volume of customers online, there was a reconnection volume which seemed to overwhelm the edge firewalls and caused routing protocol issues, which caused a second outage.

Due to the short duration of the attack, our DDoS detection tools did not trigger actionable alerts. These thresholds have been adjusted, accordingly.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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